"YOU BRING CHARM TO THE WORLD — The 18th Global Chinese Awards" Concludes in Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 14 August 2026 – The "YOU BRING CHARM TO THE WORLD — The 18th Global Chinese Awards" came to a close at the Phoenix Center in Beijing on the evening of August 12.

On the evening of August 12, the "YOU BRING CHARM TO THE WORLD — The 18th Global Chinese Awards" concluded at the Phoenix Center in Beijing. The photo shows award recipients posing with presenters.

At this year's awards ceremony, Academician Zhang Boli of the Chinese Academy of Engineering received the Global Chinese Lifetime Achievement Award, while actress Sylvia Chang received the Global Chinese Special Tribute Award. Academician Pan Jianwei of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lu Chaoyang, Chair Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, picture-book illustrator Cai Gao, Chinese freestyle skier Xu Mengtao, Gao Du, professor at the Beijing Dance Academy, and actress Xin Zhilei received the Global Chinese Award.

In his speech, Xu Wei, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Phoenix TV, said: "Each generation of Chinese people has its own responsibilities. The older generation worked hard with their roots in their homeland, while the younger generation embraces innovation and the world, becoming connectors between different cultures." Phoenix TV will continue to serve as an on-the-ground reporter of major global events, an international storyteller of Chinese culture, and a platform builder for international exchange, enabling audiences around the world to see more of the vibrant and diverse achievements of Chinese people.

The tribute section of the ceremony opened with an immersive children's picture-book theatrical performance based on classic works including The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring and Bao'er. Both works were created by Cai Gao, who received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in April this year. During the ceremony, the host recalled the children's song Cai sang at the Andersen Award ceremony, prompting her to smile and sing "The Cuckoo" once again.

Upon receiving the Global Chinese Award, Cai Gao said that the splendid and outstanding artistic heritage of China has been a source of inspiration for her work, and that she has a deep love for the culture of this land. Seeing so many Chinese people achieve remarkable accomplishments in different fields has also given her spiritual strength. Quoting the phrase, "As long as life goes on, the struggle continues," she encouraged herself to keep creating with passion and curiosity. "Life and creation require dedication and perseverance. I am willing to devote myself to them, as I always have."

Joining the ceremony via video link, Lu Chaoyang shared his joy and said that the honor belongs to all Chinese researchers who have climbed, generation after generation, along the long and steep road of quantum science. Looking to the future, he offered this message: "The quantum world is very small, so small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye; but China's dreams in science and technology are immense. Through fundamental innovation, we should illuminate a farther future for human civilization."

In her acceptance speech, Xin Zhilei said she particularly liked the phrase "YOU BRING CHARM TO THE WORLD." "Everyone is a unique ray of light in this world. Through our efforts and down-to-earth dedication, we each make our own small contribution to the beauty of the world. As an actress, what I can do is put my heart into every role and bring to the world a little bit of the unique color that belongs to me." Lu Yang, director of Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield, also sent his congratulations via video, expressing hope for continued collaboration and for the creation of more outstanding Chinese-language stories.

"If the dance steps of a people disappear, that chapter of history will also lose its voice." Over the past 50 years, Gao Du and his team have traveled across more than 20 provinces and autonomous regions throughout China, venturing deep into remote mountains and visiting people's courtyards and fireside gatherings. They learned from local communities dances that had no names, no stages and sometimes not even an audience, devoting themselves to the creation of the Chenxiang series.

Gao Du said he would continue dancing, both in the classroom and on larger stages, bringing folk dance traditions rooted in the land to the world and fostering dialogue among different cultures, so that the world can see the beauty of the East.

Wu Qingcai, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China News Service, presented Xu Mengtao with the Global Chinese Award. Xu shared that August 13, 2026, marked exactly 24 years since she began competing in the aerials discipline of snow sports. She hopes everyone can create something extraordinary through perseverance and dedication. "In the future, I will once again stand on the starting platform and set off again. See you again at the summit."

As one of the creators of the song Tomorrow Will Be Better, Sylvia Chang said that she and fellow Chinese-language singers hope to use music to build a bridge for peaceful communication. She expressed gratitude for being able to continue pursuing a career she loves and for having a wonderful family. "I hope to share this gratitude and these blessings with everyone."

At the ceremony, the host recounted the eight-character motto that Academician Zhang Boli has followed throughout his life: "Uphold virtue to broaden its influence; use medical skills to serve humanity." Now approaching 80, Zhang Boli continues to see patients at a clinic every week. When patients have difficulty walking, he takes the initiative to go downstairs and see them in their cars.

Zhang Boli said that the concepts of traditional Chinese medicine—including health preservation, wellness and preventive treatment—represent one of the best practices of "proactive health management." Looking to the future with the compassion of a physician, he said: "Let traditional Chinese medicine benefit Chinese people around the world, and let traditional Chinese medicine benefit people everywhere. The world will be healthier because of traditional Chinese medicine."

It is reported that the "YOU BRING CHARM TO THE WORLD — Global Chinese Awards" was initiated by Phoenix Media Group in collaboration with China News Service and numerous Chinese-language media organizations in China and overseas. Together, they select and honor outstanding Chinese people who have achieved excellence and made a global impact in different fields, helping to amplify the achievements of exceptional Chinese individuals and inspire more generations to come.

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Built by AI Rudder, CALL-E asks the user before every call and reports back with proof of what was agreed.

SAN FRANCISCO, US – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 November 2026 – AI Rudder, the Singapore-headquartered company behind more than 80 billion AI calls, has launched CALL-E, which lets AI agents make real phone calls on their users' behalf. CALL-E works inside ChatGPT, in personal AI agents such as Muse, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, and in AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

Personal AI agents are growing fast. Meta's Muse passed five million US downloads in its first three weeks, and Grok Bot, from Elon Musk's SpaceX, reached 400,000 weekly users in its first month. Both are piloting phone calls, and users now try to hand their AI agent the calls they used to make themselves: moving a dinner booking, chasing the dry cleaner.

CALL-E is built for those calls. A personal AI agent hands it the errand, and CALL-E makes the call and reports back with proof.

"The smartest AI model in the world can still fail a phone call. All it takes is one 'mm-hmm'," said Teng Ren, CEO of AI Rudder.

"Say your AI agent calls a restaurant to move your booking to a specific time. The restaurant host says 'mm-hmm' to agree, and your agent stops mid-sentence, as if she'd asked a question. Then she says, 'Tuesday at... let me check,' and your agent cuts in with 'Great, Tuesday it is,' to a time she did not give. These behaviours are unnatural to a human, so she knows she's talking to AI and hangs up.

"An AI agent earns the right to speak for us when it reads every 'yes', every pause and every interruption the way a person on the phone would, and answers the way that person would."

A call can't be unsent. CALL-E builds an approval step into the product: each call goes ahead only after the user approves that exact plan, so a call nobody approved never rings.

Phone calls are messier than chat. People pause halfway through an order number, talk over the agent, or cut in mid-sentence. AI Rudder's engineers handle this in the code around the AI model, which decides what the model hears and what it remembers saying.

On the TurnBench Interruption leaderboard, Helm Swift, the AI Rudder model that tells CALL-E when a caller is cutting in, has the joint-lowest false-positive rate of any qualifying model, so it rarely stops talking just because a caller says "yeah" (TurnBench, October 2026).

An agent can report "Booked for 7pm" and still have misheard the time. So after each call, CALL-E reports what was agreed, how confident it is that it met the goal, and the exact lines from the call that back it up, so the user can check it.

By default, a CALL-E call introduces itself as CALL-E, a voice agent. The user can change what it says, and a pre-check stops a call from posing as the FBI or 911.

Regulators are moving the same way. In its 2024 Declaratory Ruling (FCC 24-17), the FCC clarified that AI-generated voices fall within the definition of artificial or prerecorded voices under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, making such calls subject to applicable regulatory requirements, including consent and caller identification obligations. Separately, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires that people be told they are talking to an AI.

An agent that calls for you carries your phone number and the details of your errand, so the line it uses has to keep both safe. CALL-E runs on the same technology as AI Rudder's enterprise solutions, which are built to meet SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, alongside GDPR and PDPA requirements. Every call keeps a record from plan to result, with the approval and the evidence attached, so a disputed call can be traced.

CALL-E is available at https://www.heycall-e.com/, where new users start with 100 free credits.

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About CALL-E

CALL-E lets an AI agent make real phone calls for the person it works for: it plans the call, waits for the user's approval, makes the call and reports back with proof of what was said. CALL-E is built by Singapore-headquartered AI Rudder, which is backed by investors including Tiger Global and Peak XV Partners.

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Illustration: a personal AI agent makes calls for its user with CALL-E. (Image: AI Rudder)